Latest Fact-Checks In Climate Change

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Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on July 22, 2014 comments on his radio show
The United States is the leading nation in the world "with the highest amount of doubt about the conventional wisdom of climate change."
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By Linda Qiu • July 29, 2014
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on May 13, 2014 in a question and answer after a speech
Cap and trade legislation "was originally a Republican idea."
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By Amy Sherman • May 23, 2014
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
stated on May 18, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week"
"Virtually no Republican" in Washington accepts climate change science.
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By Julie Kliegman • May 18, 2014
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on December 17, 2013 a speech on the Senate floor
"61 percent of non-tea party Republicans actually agree...there is 'solid evidence the earth is warming,' ...[but] 70 percent of tea partiers, contrarily, say there is 'no solid evidence' the earth is warming."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 28, 2013
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on November 13, 2013 a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate
In a poll, "53 percent of young Republican voters . . . under age 35 said that they would describe a climate [change] denier as 'ignorant,' 'out of touch' or 'crazy.'"
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 25, 2013
Organizing for Action
Organizing for Action
stated on August 9, 2013 an email to Obama supporters in Florida
Sen. Marco Rubio "refuses to accept the basic science" on climate change and is "a climate change denier."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 16, 2013
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on June 12, 2013 a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate
The oceans "have become 30 percent more acidic."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 21, 2013
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on May 23, 2013 a press release
Says  "With nearly 75 percent of Americans supportive of the construction of the pipeline, Schrader needs to explain to Oregon families why he voted against this needed project."  
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By Janie Har • June 1, 2013
Janet Freedman
Janet Freedman
stated on January 13, 2013 an interview on 10 News Conference
Tide gauges measuring sea level in Rhode Island since 1930 have risen "maybe about 10 inches since that time."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 8, 2013
Rob Cornilles
Rob Cornilles
stated on January 10, 2012 a debate
The proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline is a bipartisan proposal.
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By Janie Har • January 14, 2012
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on November 28, 2011 a Web ad
Says Mitt Romney has said different things about whether global warming is caused by humans
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 30, 2011
Ohio Coal Association
Ohio Coal Association
stated on March 1, 2011 testimony to a House subcommittee
Says that President Obama said in 2008 that his proposed greenhouse gas regulations "will bankrupt" anyone who wants to build a new coal-fired power plant.
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By Stephen Koff • March 14, 2011
Eugene Robinson
Eugene Robinson
stated on December 1, 2009 a Washington Post column
The "post-Soviet industrial meltdown is responsible for most of the progress in reducing carbon emissions that Europe is able to claim."
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By Catharine Richert • December 9, 2009
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on July 14, 2009 an op-ed article in the Washington Post.
"Job losses are so certain under this new cap-and-tax plan that it includes a provision accommodating newly unemployed workers from the resulting dried-up energy sector, to the tune of $4.2 billion over eight years. So much for creating jobs."
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By Catharine Richert • July 16, 2009
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